Apologies in advance for the vagueness of this post. I’ve read the template and rules and I’ll try to keep things within the format where possible, however I cannot identify what my problem even is. I have some experience with linux, having used Ubuntu for a while and shortly moving on to Arch Xfce after one of Ubuntu’s “smart” internal processes borked the kernel. That said: don’t assume I know what I’m doing.
Two days ago I installed Garuda Dragonised Gaming for the first time on a spare USB SSD I had lying around. I experienced quite a few issues during the installation process which I managed to resolve. I now have a “Functioning” install which I’m making this post from. I absolutely love it so far when it’s worked. Hopefully I can get it stable enough to begin using as my daily driver.
I’m currently experiencing the following issues that may or may not be caused by what I suspect to be a larger central issue:
- Errors appear during startup. They move too fast for me to catch any of them but there’s usually quite a few.
- VRR only works properly when my second monitor is turned off. It immediately stops functioning again as soon as the display is turned back on again.
- Steam (Native) has a completely scrambled store page and also suffers from intermittently flickering UI elements. This also affects the steam overlay.
- Discord Experiences similar flickering, with the displayed image rapidly flickering between the current and previous frame whenever anything moves. There is also an intermittent input delay that can vary between a quarter of a second and three seconds.
- FireDragon Browser will randomly display some letters and thumbnails and not others. The characters disappear and reappear at random. This doesn’t occur on webpages, only the program’s own GUI. Firefox which I now use doesn’t experience any issues.
- “Desktop Effects” preview videos load indefinitely. Not sure it’s related to the previous issues but it’s just another thing that has always been the case (besides on the install media, that seemed to have fewer DE bugs).
- When running garuda-update it always ends with a DKMS error. Everything else appears to be ok.
--> A problem with the NVIDIA drivers has been detected
---> Building NVIDIA DKMS module for kernel 6.6.29-1-lts
Module nvidia 550.76 is not installed for kernel 6.6.29-1-lts (x86_64). Skipping...
Module nvidia 550.76 is not built for kernel 6.6.29-1-lts (x86_64). Skipping...
Sign command: /usr/lib/modules/6.6.29-1-lts/build/scripts/sign-file
Signing key: /var/lib/dkms/mok.key
Public certificate (MOK): /var/lib/dkms/mok.pub
Error! This module/version has already been built on: 6.6.29-1-lts
Directory /var/lib/dkms/nvidia/550.76/6.6.29-1-lts/x86_64 already exists. Use the dkms remove function before trying t
o build again.
---> Failed to build NVIDIA DKMS module for kernel 6.6.29-1-lts
That is about as much info as I can provide. I’m not sure all of it is relevant but that is what sticks out to me.
As for my attempts at resolving this:
I’ve tried reinstalling numerous times, no matter what I change with the installation it always seems to have the same issues.
I’ve tried changing the kernel from the default (6.8.7-zen1-2-zen) to linux-lts, linux-mainline and linux-amd. My reasoning was that the proprietary Nvidia driver was misbehaving with the default less generic kernel version. Linux-amd resulted in the startup process stalling. Ctrl + Alt + F3 allowed me to try a few things to at least reach the desktop but startx would always tell me there were no displays available. Eventually I just rebooted using a different kernel. The other three kernels had no effect on the issue, positive or negative.
I’ve tried uninstalling, reinstalling and rebuilding the Nvidia drivers. Nothing has caused any of the issues to budge.
I lack the diagnostic experience to understand or pursue this issue further on my own. Google hasn’t been of much use any more. How do the wizards of this forum advise I proceed?
Again, apologies for not being particularly helpful. I’m doing all I can within my limited scope of knowledge and experience. I didn’t expect this to be more difficult than regular arch.
My current instance should be about as close as it gets to unmodified without performing another fresh install. I’m perfectly happy to start from scratch if necessary though.
Sincerest thanks,
System:
Kernel: 6.8.7-zen1-2-zen arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 13.2.1
clocksource: tsc avail: hpet,acpi_pm
parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/@/boot/vmlinuz-linux-zen
root=UUID=76db24a9-a231-47bf-914d-a1421fad779c rw rootflags=subvol=@
quiet resume=UUID=eb9b75ef-2787-4270-9dd5-9a24bdc895ec loglevel=3 ibt=off
Desktop: KDE Plasma v: 6.0.4 tk: Qt v: N/A wm: kwin_wayland dm: SDDM
Distro: Garuda base: Arch Linux
Machine:
Type: Desktop System: Gigabyte product: X670E AORUS MASTER v: -CF
serial: N/A
Mobo: Gigabyte model: X670E AORUS MASTER serial: N/A
uuid: 03560274-043c-05b3-4a06-060700080009 UEFI: American Megatrends LLC.
v: F22 date: 03/11/2024
Battery:
Device-1: hidpp_battery_0 model: Logitech G305 Lightspeed Wireless Gaming
Mouse serial: <filter> charge: 100% (should be ignored) rechargeable: yes
status: discharging
CPU:
Info: model: AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D socket: AM5 bits: 64 type: MT MCP
arch: Zen 4 gen: 5 level: v4 note: check built: 2022+ process: TSMC n5 (5nm)
family: 0x19 (25) model-id: 0x61 (97) stepping: 2 microcode: 0xA601206
Topology: cpus: 1x cores: 8 tpc: 2 threads: 16 smt: enabled cache:
L1: 512 KiB desc: d-8x32 KiB; i-8x32 KiB L2: 8 MiB desc: 8x1024 KiB
L3: 96 MiB desc: 1x96 MiB
Speed (MHz): avg: 813 high: 3795 min/max: 400/5050 base/boost: 4200/5050
scaling: driver: amd-pstate-epp governor: powersave volts: 1.3 V
ext-clock: 100 MHz cores: 1: 400 2: 400 3: 400 4: 3795 5: 400 6: 400
7: 400 8: 400 9: 400 10: 400 11: 400 12: 400 13: 400 14: 400 15: 3614
16: 400 bogomips: 134392
Flags: avx avx2 ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 sse4a ssse3 svm
Vulnerabilities: <filter>
Graphics:
Device-1: NVIDIA GA102 [GeForce RTX 3090] driver: nvidia v: 550.76
alternate: nouveau,nvidia_drm non-free: 550.xx+ status: current (as of
2024-04; EOL~2026-12-xx) arch: Ampere code: GAxxx process: TSMC n7 (7nm)
built: 2020-2023 pcie: gen: 4 speed: 16 GT/s lanes: 16 ports: active: none
off: HDMI-A-1 empty: DP-1,DP-2,DP-3 bus-ID: 01:00.0 chip-ID: 10de:2204
class-ID: 0300
Device-2: AMD Raphael vendor: Gigabyte driver: amdgpu v: kernel
arch: RDNA-2 code: Navi-2x process: TSMC n7 (7nm) built: 2020-22 pcie:
gen: 4 speed: 16 GT/s lanes: 16 ports: active: DP-5 empty: DP-4, DP-6,
HDMI-A-2, Writeback-1 bus-ID: 14:00.0 chip-ID: 1002:164e class-ID: 0300
temp: 37.0 C
Device-3: Microdia Webcam Vitade AF driver: snd-usb-audio,uvcvideo
type: USB rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s lanes: 1 mode: 2.0 bus-ID: 7-1:2
chip-ID: 0c45:6366 class-ID: 0102 serial: <filter>
Display: server: X.Org v: 23.2.6 with: Xwayland v: 23.2.6
compositor: kwin_wayland driver: X: loaded: nvidia
gpu: amdgpu,nvidia,nvidia-nvswitch display-ID: :1 screens: 1
Screen-1: 0 s-res: 5640x2880 s-dpi: 96 s-size: 1492x762mm (58.74x30.00")
s-diag: 1675mm (65.96")
Monitor-1: DP-5 pos: top-right model: HP E242 serial: <filter> built: 2017
res: 1800x2880 hz: 60 dpi: 143 gamma: 1.2 size: 320x520mm (12.6x20.47")
diag: 611mm (24.1") ratio: 16:10 modes: max: 1920x1200 min: 640x480
Monitor-2: HDMI-A-1 note: disabled pos: primary,bottom-l model: LG
(GoldStar) ULTRAGEAR+ serial: <filter> built: 2023 res: 3840x2160 hz: 144
dpi: 139 gamma: 1.2 size: 700x390mm (27.56x15.35") diag: 801mm (31.5")
ratio: 16:9 modes: max: 3840x2160 min: 640x480
API: EGL v: 1.5 hw: drv: nvidia drv: amd radeonsi platforms: device: 0
drv: nvidia device: 2 drv: radeonsi device: 3 drv: swrast gbm: drv: nvidia
surfaceless: drv: nvidia x11: drv: zink inactive: wayland,device-1
API: OpenGL v: 4.6.0 compat-v: 4.5 vendor: nvidia mesa v: 550.76
glx-v: 1.4 direct-render: yes renderer: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090/PCIe/SSE2
memory: 23.44 GiB
API: Vulkan v: 1.3.279 layers: 7 device: 0 type: discrete-gpu
name: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 driver: nvidia v: 550.76 device-ID: 10de:2204
surfaces: xcb,xlib device: 1 type: integrated-gpu name: AMD Radeon
Graphics (RADV RAPHAEL_MENDOCINO) driver: mesa radv v: 24.0.6-arch1.2
device-ID: 1002:164e surfaces: xcb,xlib device: 2 type: cpu name: llvmpipe
(LLVM 17.0.6 256 bits) driver: mesa llvmpipe v: 24.0.6-arch1.2 (LLVM
17.0.6) device-ID: 10005:0000 surfaces: xcb,xlib
Audio:
Device-1: NVIDIA GA102 High Definition Audio driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel
pcie: gen: 4 speed: 16 GT/s lanes: 16 bus-ID: 01:00.1 chip-ID: 10de:1aef
class-ID: 0403
Device-2: AMD Rembrandt Radeon High Definition Audio driver: snd_hda_intel
v: kernel pcie: gen: 4 speed: 16 GT/s lanes: 16 bus-ID: 14:00.1
chip-ID: 1002:1640 class-ID: 0403
Device-3: AMD Family 17h/19h HD Audio vendor: Gigabyte
driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel pcie: gen: 4 speed: 16 GT/s lanes: 16
bus-ID: 14:00.6 chip-ID: 1022:15e3 class-ID: 0403
Device-4: WOER driver: snd-usb-audio type: USB rev: 1.1 speed: 12 Mb/s
lanes: 1 mode: 1.1 bus-ID: 3-5.1:4 chip-ID: 8888:1234 class-ID: 0300
serial: <filter>
Device-5: Realtek LG Monitor HP MIC driver: hid-generic,usbhid type: USB
rev: 2.0 speed: 12 Mb/s lanes: 1 mode: 1.1 bus-ID: 3-5.4.2.4:15
chip-ID: 0bda:4027 class-ID: 0300 serial: <filter>
Device-6: Microdia Webcam Vitade AF driver: snd-usb-audio,uvcvideo
type: USB rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s lanes: 1 mode: 2.0 bus-ID: 7-1:2
chip-ID: 0c45:6366 class-ID: 0102 serial: <filter>
API: ALSA v: k6.8.7-zen1-2-zen status: kernel-api with: aoss
type: oss-emulator tools: N/A
Server-1: PipeWire v: 1.0.5 status: n/a (root, process) with:
1: pipewire-pulse status: active 2: wireplumber status: active
3: pipewire-alsa type: plugin 4: pw-jack type: plugin
tools: pactl,pw-cat,pw-cli,wpctl
Network:
Device-1: Intel Ethernet I225-V vendor: Gigabyte driver: igc v: kernel pcie:
gen: 2 speed: 5 GT/s lanes: 1 port: N/A bus-ID: 0c:00.0 chip-ID: 8086:15f3
class-ID: 0200
IF: enp12s0 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter>
Device-2: Intel Wi-Fi 6E AX210/AX1675 2x2 [Typhoon Peak] driver: iwlwifi
v: kernel pcie: gen: 2 speed: 5 GT/s lanes: 1 bus-ID: 0d:00.0
chip-ID: 8086:2725 class-ID: 0280
IF: wlp13s0 state: down mac: <filter>
Info: services: NetworkManager, systemd-timesyncd, wpa_supplicant
Bluetooth:
Device-1: Intel AX210 Bluetooth driver: btusb v: 0.8 type: USB rev: 2.0
speed: 12 Mb/s lanes: 1 mode: 1.1 bus-ID: 1-9:2 chip-ID: 8087:0032
class-ID: e001
Report: btmgmt ID: hci0 rfk-id: 0 state: down bt-service: enabled,running
rfk-block: hardware: no software: no address: <filter> bt-v: 5.3 lmp-v: 12
status: discoverable: no pairing: no
Drives:
Local Storage: total: 3.22 TiB used: 51.11 GiB (1.5%)
ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 maj-min: 259:0 vendor: Crucial model: CT1000T700SSD3
size: 931.51 GiB block-size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 126 Gb/s
lanes: 4 tech: SSD serial: <filter> fw-rev: PACR5103 temp: 37.9 C
scheme: GPT
SMART: yes health: PASSED on: 18d 13h cycles: 329
read-units: 19,948,916 [10.2 TB] written-units: 5,711,946 [2.92 TB]
ID-2: /dev/sda maj-min: 8:0 vendor: Crucial model: CT2000MX500SSD1
family: Micron Client SSDs size: 1.82 TiB block-size: physical: 512 B
logical: 512 B sata: 3.3 speed: 6.0 Gb/s tech: SSD serial: <filter>
fw-rev: 046 temp: 26 C scheme: GPT
SMART: yes state: enabled health: PASSED on: 18d 13h cycles: 334
written: 1.47 TiB
ID-3: /dev/sdb maj-min: 8:16 vendor: SK Hynix model: HFM512GDJTNG-8310A
size: 476.94 GiB block-size: physical: 2048 B logical: 512 B type: USB
rev: 3.2 spd: 10 Gb/s lanes: 1 mode: 3.2 gen-2x1 tech: N/A
serial: <filter> fw-rev: 1.00 drive-rev: 80002C00 temp: 43 Celsius C
scheme: GPT
SMART: yes health: PASSED on: 166d 1h cycles: 1,756
read-units: 44,055,029 [22.5 TB] written-units: 33,753,857 [17.2 TB]
ID-4: /dev/sdc maj-min: 8:32 model: Mass Storage Device size: 29.72 GiB
block-size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B type: USB rev: 2.0 spd: 480 Mb/s
lanes: 1 mode: 2.0 tech: N/A serial: <filter> scheme: MBR
SMART Message: Unknown USB bridge. Flash drive/Unsupported enclosure?
Partition:
ID-1: / raw-size: 440.93 GiB size: 440.93 GiB (100.00%)
used: 51.11 GiB (11.6%) fs: btrfs block-size: 4096 B dev: /dev/sdb2
maj-min: 8:18
ID-2: /boot/efi raw-size: 4 GiB size: 3.99 GiB (99.80%)
used: 584 KiB (0.0%) fs: vfat block-size: 512 B dev: /dev/sdb1 maj-min: 8:17
ID-3: /home raw-size: 440.93 GiB size: 440.93 GiB (100.00%)
used: 51.11 GiB (11.6%) fs: btrfs block-size: 4096 B dev: /dev/sdb2
maj-min: 8:18
ID-4: /var/log raw-size: 440.93 GiB size: 440.93 GiB (100.00%)
used: 51.11 GiB (11.6%) fs: btrfs block-size: 4096 B dev: /dev/sdb2
maj-min: 8:18
ID-5: /var/tmp raw-size: 440.93 GiB size: 440.93 GiB (100.00%)
used: 51.11 GiB (11.6%) fs: btrfs block-size: 4096 B dev: /dev/sdb2
maj-min: 8:18
Swap:
Kernel: swappiness: 133 (default 60) cache-pressure: 100 (default) zswap: no
ID-1: swap-1 type: zram size: 30.5 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) priority: 100
comp: zstd avail: lzo,lzo-rle,lz4,lz4hc,842 max-streams: 16 dev: /dev/zram0
ID-2: swap-2 type: partition size: 32 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) priority: -2
dev: /dev/sdb3 maj-min: 8:19
Sensors:
System Temperatures: cpu: 41.9 C mobo: N/A gpu: amdgpu temp: 38.0 C
Fan Speeds (rpm): N/A
Info:
Memory: total: 32 GiB note: est. available: 30.5 GiB used: 3.61 GiB (11.8%)
Processes: 379 Power: uptime: 5m states: freeze,mem,disk suspend: deep
avail: s2idle wakeups: 0 hibernate: platform avail: shutdown, reboot,
suspend, test_resume image: 12.13 GiB services: org_kde_powerdevil,
power-profiles-daemon, upowerd Init: systemd v: 255 default: graphical
tool: systemctl
Packages: pm: pacman pkgs: 1914 libs: 531 tools: octopi,paru Compilers:
clang: 17.0.6 gcc: 13.2.1 Shell: garuda-inxi (sudo) default: Bash v: 5.2.26
running-in: konsole inxi: 3.3.34
Garuda (2.6.26-1):
System install date: 2024-04-28
Last full system update: 2024-04-28
Is partially upgraded: No
Relevant software: snapper NetworkManager dracut nvidia-dkms
Windows dual boot: Yes
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